Soccer Sunday: Your Running Commentary

There are few teams in the world playing better soccer than AC Milan and few players enjoying finer form than Ronaldinho.

The Brazilian star and the club David Beckham now calls home will look to keep their hot streak going today against the cellar-dwellars from Siena.

If mismatches aren't your style, then Napoli-Palermo and Bordeaux-Marseille can offer better match-ups for your viewing pleasure. Lastly, River Plate-Independiente can help satisfy the craving for a top-notch rivalry.

If you will be watching today's action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.

If Martin O’Neill wanted to get Ashley Young one-on-one with Jonathan Spector, it looks like it might be a good idea. He twice beats the defender and Spector concedes a free-kick, which Richard Dunne goes agonisingly close to heading in. Touch too high for the defender.

If I told my American friends that LeBron James is “pacey,” I’d get laughed at for days. Not that I care, mind you; but besides, I don’t get the word….slow is a pace, just as much as fast is a pace! Under that logic, you’d be just as right calling Spector “pacey” as you would Donovan!

Just saw the last ten minutes of the Villa game and Spector looked good, trying to get forward. Funny you all comment on Young’s pace but the announcers stated that Specs did a good job. Wonder what’s up.

Yeah, I’m really not sure what all the hub-bub is about, either. I thought he played pretty well, the D held a pretty fiery front to zero goals.. and he got up and cut in a few times with marginal success.
There was some talk of him not being “pacey” enough (apparently comparing him unfavorably to Joshua Jackson’s character from Dawson’s Creek– not sure about the legitimacy of that claim, but whatever), but he seems to keep up just fine out there.
I think people are looking for more goals from his defensive position. That’s all I can come up with.

Ronaldinho lit it up today with a hat trick! Should’ve had 5 + 3 assists. Beginning to look like his old form. The goals will boost his confidence for the upcoming matches with Inter and Man U. Watch out, Rossoneri coming at you full throttle!!

Wait for the doctors before leaping to conclusions. But, if Dempsey is gone the USMNT is so screwed. Personally I think you play all of Bradley, Clark and Edu or Jones if ever available and get ready to bunker down rather than adding a poor attacker.

I blew up my ACL in College and I was able to walk (albeit with a major limp) off the field so although its good he didn’t have to be stretchered off…it is by no means an indication of potential severity

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Of course no one has to bow down to the English. But I feel like when people get really worked up about English words ‘infecting’ the way Americans talk, we’re just showing how incredibly insecure we are about our place in this game. Sort of like how the French are so insecure about English/American words infecting their language. If the word’s a good one and people will understand you, use it. If you don’t like the word, don’t use it. Enough with the policing.

Apparently PCL tear is very, very rare and there’s a lot of controversy among medical professionals about how to treat. Great link here: link to cincinnatisportsmed.com

“Injuries to the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) are rare, accounting for only about 5% of all knee ligament injuries. There is disagreement among physicians over which patients with isolated PCL ruptures (that do not have any other ligament damage) should have surgery and which patients should not have surgery – and for those who need surgery, just how to perform it to achieve the best results. The problem is that these injuries can either not cause many problems, or they can be disabling and cause considerable problems with sports and, in some cases, regular activities of daily living.”

Very difficult to injure the PCL without hurting some other stuff along the way. Really, though, the only prognosis that would keep him out of the World Cup is an ACL tear. Those require surgery and 6-9 months. A sprain of a ligament can heal with rest/rehab, and a meniscus tear can be repaired surgically with just 6 weeks out. An ACL almost always is easy to spot, as the knee takes undue pressure to the inside. A doctor can tell fairly soon if an ACL is the problem as the knee feels loose when pulling. Did anyone see how he got hurt? Did his knee ‘dip’ in or was it a twist or hyperectension?

After 4 knee surgeries myself, I certainly hope this is not needed for Deuce. Its just never the same.

If he could walk off the pitch, could it really be a complete tear of the ligament then?

can the body support all that weight if 1 of the 4 ligaments is completely severed?

gooch couldnt even come close to standing, so thats how you know it was bad.
but dempsey walked off just kind of limping. that said, the PCL apparently doesnt heal on its own, so a tear could still require surgery if he cant play without it bothering him.

hope not tho, he’s improved so much since the last world cup. Im too excited to see what he could do this time around

i don’t think it was a full out ACL tear. trainers can immediately tell if the ACL is blown out because they can literally feel the tear in the knee. if anyone watches american football wes welker knew his season was over right after his injury because the trainer told him he knew from feeling that the ACL was out. hopefully this is a good thing for deuce because it doesn’t seem like that happened